Royal Saudi Air Force Museum
# Royal Saudi Air Force Museum

The Royal Saudi Air Force Museum (or Saqr Al Jazeera Aviation Museum; Arabic: متحف صقر الجزيرة للطيران) is located on the East Ring Road of Riyadh between exits 10 and 11. A Lockheed L-1011 Tristar formerly operated by Saudia serves as a gate guard visible from the ring road.

## Overview

The museum presents the history of the Royal Saudi Air Force from its establishment in the 1920s to the present day.

The museum comprises an outdoor static park and a large and modern indoor museum.

## Static park

Aircraft on display include:

* BAC Lightning T-55
* BAC Strikemaster Mk80
* Boeing 707 in Saudia livery
* Boeing F-15D Eagle
* Cessna 310
* Douglas A-26B Invader
* Douglas DC-4
* Lockheed C-130 Hercules
* Lockheed L-1011 Tristar in Saudia livery
* Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
* Panavia Tornado ADV F3 & IDS
* North American T-6 Texan
* BAC Lightning T55
* BAC Strikemaster Mk80
* Boeing 707 HZ-HM2
* F-15D Eagle
* Maule M-6 and C-130 Hercules
* Cessna 310
* A-26B Invader
* Douglas DC-4
* T-33 Shooting Star
* Tornado ADV F3
* T-6 Texan

## Display halls

The display halls contain exhibits on the history of the RSAF, aircraft engines and weaponry, uniforms, insignia and decorations and a special display on Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Saudi in space, who served as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-51-G.

Aircraft on display include:

* BAC Lightning F53
* Bell UH-1
* Bell OH-58
* de Havilland Chipmunk Mk 10
* de Havilland Vampire FB Mk 52
* Douglas DC-3 outfitted to represent the aircraft given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud in 1945
* Hawker Hunter F Mk60
* North American F-86F Sabre
* Northrop F-5E Tiger II
* North American T-6 Texan
* Temco T-35 Buckaroo
